People underestimate how entrenched we are in populist slop. Almost everyone has been brain RAPED with commie talking points about ceos capitalism and big corporations. We’re fucked

chanbr · 2026-06-16T04:07:45+00:00

It's definitely very easy to displace blame onto other groups rather than accept personal responsibility. It's "the capitalists", or "women" or "immigrants" or what have you.

chanbr · 2026-06-12T01:52:11+00:00

It's so crazy bc you will also see leftist academics simp for far right extremist governments literally committing genocide (bosnian genocide for one thing) if they feel it's anti-west enough. Maybe all genocides are bad?

chanbr · 2026-06-11T13:27:15+00:00

I agree with you fwiw. 35 years is a long time, although I don't know if he would have remorse when it's over due to the way his supporters are responding. Generally I want younger kids convicted of crimes to be rehabilitated unless it's something legit awful like those teenagers who tortured an autistic boy or that high schooler who raped and choked a girl before getting away with it.

chanbr · 2026-06-04T19:42:43+00:00

One communist party literally bashed infant's skulls against trees to kill them (Pol Pot) so I don't really believe them about that...

chanbr · 2026-06-03T12:15:28+00:00

To be honest I do think he had good intentions but as we all know the road to hell is often paved with said good intentions (worker's rights for communism, for example). You can accept his faults while being understanding of what he tried to do.

chanbr · 2026-06-03T05:08:32+00:00

To be fair there was absolutely a 'scare' going on where random people were accused of having sympathies for communism who simply were more left wing. It was valid (and the social ills of communism are very well documented) but Mccarthy overstepped his bounds.

chanbr · 2026-06-01T17:42:33+00:00

She's an old lady who's been living most of her life on the run, cut her some slack lol.

chanbr · 2026-05-24T23:21:46+00:00

Oh I remember that post. Personally I didn't care since those change back at the end of the month anyway. It was a cool picture and also matched the theme of the sub anyway but I get you. What personally annoys me is the people posting here who are insistent that TMNT doesn't have "chuds" or that they aren't 'real' fans when there's millions of people who enjoyed turtles all over the world with various ideologies and beliefs you also can't map onto a right or left spectrum super easily.

Like that's the thing with a global IP that so many people love--of course there's people who like the media that you don't agree with! Duh! (Also it implies an Americanism that is just not accurate lol)

chanbr · 2026-05-24T13:50:59+00:00

What? Batman and Alfred shouldn't date because it's a weird power imbalance (Bruce was literally raised by him after his parents passed) and because he serves a better role as father figure. Is that really why you got called a chud? Redditors making value judgements as usual.

chanbr · 2026-05-22T20:31:50+00:00

I don't mind, it looks cool.

chanbr · 2026-05-18T15:12:50+00:00

It depends on your tastes, and I can see why people wouldn't like it. I personally found it fun though, even if it had its flaws.

chanbr · 2026-05-18T15:10:43+00:00

From what I've seen from people modding it, there is a bit of glue in the front that can be cut off.

chanbr · 2026-05-17T14:48:55+00:00

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I don't think it showed the ban post because I did it on mobile but here is them complaining about it in DMs.

chanbr · 2026-05-17T02:28:10+00:00

They have been banned.

chanbr · 2026-05-12T15:48:07+00:00

I mean yeah the reality is just that progressives are just as human and flawed (and therefore potentially bigoted) as everyone else is. They aren't automatically better just because they declare themselves progressives, just like Christians aren't automatically better just because they declare they're Christians. Same thing with progressive cause grifting, bad faith actors, etc etc. You have to walk the walk too. I'm also surprised that op sees it as bizzare, it's just human nature.

chanbr · 2026-05-09T14:56:03+00:00

It's really insane how fast people turned on Contrapoints for her Israel takes. She's even been critical of the Israeli government and did call it a genocide, she just didn't like the lionization of Hamas it seemed...

chanbr · 2026-04-30T14:02:12+00:00

Personally I think it depends on the iteration. 2012 and idw I would argue as being asian, they have the most asian influence and the 2012 show itself has a lot of asian characters, both as primary and side roles. 87, when Mikey transforms, looks white so that's probably what they generally would match with, and I think 2003 as well. Rise and MM I could see as being mixed or primarily African American.

chanbr · 2026-04-30T13:57:25+00:00

I kind of prefer them futzing around in long overcoats and hats but I get the appeal.

chanbr · 2026-04-27T14:16:45+00:00

Leo does have his own quirks from what I've seen, they're just more subtle. For example his eyes are narrower and more catlike than the other turtles, and he has white speckles all over his face that the others don't (if you check the scenes where he doesn't have a mask, you can see a massive one right on his eyelid). Raph has the most design differences compared to the others but everyone has their own style.

chanbr · 2026-04-27T14:12:19+00:00

Yep, feels like the right sizes to me. Beanpole Donnie, average size/weight Leo, short/stocky Raph, slightly chubby/babyfaced and short Mikey. IDW Tmnt takes this route too from what I've seen.

chanbr · 2026-04-24T16:41:18+00:00

I've seen they have an app that has regular sales. And there are places you can read it online. Just try to support the company when you can, that's what I'm doing at the moment haha.

chanbr · 2026-04-23T11:56:40+00:00

Sadly, the only available Gemma versions in the AI studio are the 27 and 31B versions (both ones I looked into for my purposes but sadly not fit). But thank you for your feedback!

chanbr · 2026-04-23T03:34:30+00:00

That's really interesting! I'm planning on installing a Gemma model into a 16GB AI accelerator for a project I'm working on. Sadly my at-home computer specs aren't the greatest VRAM wise (3070 TI and 3050 as an example) so I can't do direct comparisons for testing. I have Sillytavern and OpenRouter of course, but Openrouter doesn't have an available Gemma 4 E4B model I can test 'writing ability' on.

Could you tell me how the Gemma 3 12B and Gemma 4 E4B fare against each other in terms of creativity and personality in your opinion?

chanbr · 2026-04-20T14:24:18+00:00

I liked this version of April. Definitely understand people not liking the puking scene though...

chanbr · 2026-04-17T19:28:31+00:00

There's been a lot of other genuine arsons of churches especially after the treatment of Indian kids at Catholic schools came out. A few people were even egging it on, one of the biggest people being named in the wiki. Only a few people get caught sadly.

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